5th SS Panzer Division Wiking

The 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking was a German Waffen-SS armored division that was active from 1941 to 1945. The division consisted of German officers leading volunteers from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, the Netherlands, and Belgium, and the division took part in Army Group South's invasion of the Ukraine in 1941 during Operation Barbarossa, later taking part in the battles around Kharkov and the Dnieper before withdrawing into Hungary. The division took part in Operation Spring Awakening in March 1945, and it withdrew into Czechoslovakia later that month. The division surrendered to the US Army near Furstenfeld, Austria on 9 May 1945.